I'm proud to announce that this month Hoskins Crosswords presents a puzzle (available here) with clues from 21 members of Anax's most excellent and informative website: the DIY COW clue writing forum ....

The crossword was conceived as part birthday celebration for my site’s one year anniversary, part fun endeavour, and part showcase for the talent on display at The DIY COW.

I hope to have provided you with a puzzle that is above all solvable, as well as being enjoyable ...

The puzzle was loosely edited by myself and the phantom XWD editoress (many thanks to Nic for making that possible!) – but hard editing of setters’ clues was kept to a minimum. Instead, setters were asked to keep on the easy side of things for the most part and send multiple clues of different types for the answer words they were given. From that brief, I hope to have provided you with a puzzle that is above all solvable, as well as being enjoyable and not seeming like a load of disparate clues tacked together.

I should also note that some rather exciting clues have fallen by the wayside in the search for the solvable and the solid. This puzzle was always meant to be a grid to be solved and not a clue contest where everyone already knows the answer and anything goes. Having said that, there might still be one or two clues that raise an eyebrow, but hopefully you’ll be all Roger Moore about them.

... but hopefully you’ll be all Roger Moore about them.

... thanks to all the setters who have taken time out of their real lives to make it possible ...

Either or anyway, I feel proud to have this joint grid on my site and give multiple thanks to all the setters who have taken time out of their real lives to make it possible. I hope you enjoy solving the grid as much as I have had putting it together, and please feel free to break the habit of a lifetime and comment in public if you do!

If you are interested in contacting any of the setters who appear here, you can do this via the contact section of this site and I’ll pass on your message and contact details, or you can find them direct on Anax’s DIY COW clue writing forum.

Thanks for listening ...

Hoskins

If you are interested in contacting any of the setters who appear here ...

Many thanks to Dutch for giving a heads up about this puzzle - and indeed this site - within the comments section of Big Dave's Rookie Corner .
A consistently high standard which left me feeling warm all over! I had been expecting much harder, but your comments above clarify why these were all very do-able.
It seems a bit divisive to pick out favourites, so I shan't, but I nearly always go for the ones with the smoothest surface readings.
Well done all!

Cheers to ixion for taking part, Dutch for taking part and spreading the word, and Maize for commenting - great to see folks dropping by and here's hoping having more guest puzzles here in the future garners more comments.